# MyInvois Implementation Phases, Thresholds and Relaxation Dates

> Every LHDN e-Invoice phase date, turnover band, exemption threshold and interim relaxation end date, as they stand in the current e-Invoice Guideline.

- Category: taxation
- Language: en
- Status: published
- Updated: 2026-07-20
- Canonical: https://negaraku.md/en/taxation/myinvois-phases

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Two numbers decide everything: your FY2022 turnover, which fixes your phase
permanently, and RM1,000,000, below which you are out of the system entirely.
Everything else on this page is detail.

This page is maintained as data because the dates have moved more than once.
The figures below are read off the **e-Invoice Guideline version 4.7** and the
**e-Invoice Specific Guideline version 4.8**, both published 7 July 2026.

## What are the mandatory phase dates?

| Phase | Targeted taxpayers | Mandatory from |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Annual turnover or revenue **above RM100 million** | **1 August 2024** |
| 2 | **Above RM25 million and up to RM100 million** | **1 January 2025** |
| 3 | **Above RM5 million and up to RM25 million** | **1 July 2025** |
| 4 | **Up to RM5 million** | **1 January 2026** |

There is no phase 5. A fifth phase for the RM150,000–RM500,000 band appeared in
earlier guideline versions and is gone from version 4.7.

## How is my phase determined?

| Situation | Basis |
| --- | --- |
| You have audited financial statements | Turnover or revenue in the statement of comprehensive income for **financial year 2022** |
| You do not have audited financial statements | Annual revenue reported in the **YA2022** tax return |
| You changed your FY2022 year end | Turnover **pro-rated to 12 months** |

Once fixed, it is fixed. Section 1.5 of the Guideline is explicit: later changes
to turnover do not change your implementation date. A company that did RM30
million in 2022 and RM4 million today is still a phase 2 taxpayer.

## When do new businesses start?

| Business commenced | e-Invoice implementation date |
| --- | --- |
| 2023 to 2025, turnover at least RM1,000,000 | **1 July 2026** |
| 2026 onwards | **1 July 2026** or the commencement date |
| 2026 onwards, first-year turnover below RM1,000,000 | **1 January of the second year following** the year turnover reached RM1,000,000 |

## Who is exempt?

Section 1.6.1 of the Guideline exempts, from issuing any e-Invoice including
self-billed:

- Taxpayers with annual turnover or revenue **less than RM1,000,000**
- Foreign diplomatic offices
- Individuals not conducting a business
- Statutory bodies, statutory authorities and local authorities, for statutory
  collections, and for goods sold or services performed **before 1 July 2025**
- International organisations, for goods sold or services performed **before
  1 July 2025**

The exemption attaches to the person, not the group. Section 1.6.5: a company
owned by an exempt person still implements on its own timeline.

Separately, section 1.6.7 removes specific income types from the net —
employment income, pension, alimony, zakat, certain dividend distributions,
exchange-traded securities and derivatives contract values, and disposals of
unlisted shares except where the disposer is a company, LLP, trust body or
co-operative society.

## What does the interim relaxation period allow?

Agreed by the Government on 26 July 2024, six months from each phase date —
except phase 4, which was extended far beyond that.

| Phase | Interim relaxation period |
| --- | --- |
| 1 | 1 August 2024 – **31 January 2025** |
| 2 | 1 January 2025 – **30 June 2025** |
| 3 | 1 July 2025 – **31 December 2025** |
| 4 (both the 1 Jan 2026 and 1 Jul 2026 start dates) | **until 31 December 2027** |

During the relaxation period, section 16.2 of the Specific Guideline permits a
taxpayer to:

- consolidate **all** activities, including the industries in Table 3.6 that are
  otherwise barred from consolidating
- consolidate **all** self-billed circumstances
- put any text in the *Description of Product or Service* field, rather than
  receipt or statement reference numbers
- **decline** a buyer's or supplier's request for an individual e-Invoice

LHDN will also not prosecute under s.120 of the Income Tax Act 1967 during the
period, provided the taxpayer is at least submitting consolidated documents.

That last condition is the one people miss. The relaxation is not permission to
submit nothing.

## What is the e-Invoice SVDP?

A Special Voluntary Disclosure Programme runs from **7 July 2026 to
31 December 2027** for taxpayers who missed submissions, submitted
non-compliant e-Invoices, or are already under an e-Invoice compliance review.
Compliance reviews and penalties are not pursued on what is disclosed, unless
the disclosure involves fraud, wilful default or negligence.

Submissions must use e-Invoice version **SVDP 1.2** (no digital signature) or
**SVDP 1.3** (with digital signature), and missed consolidated e-Invoices must
be filed month by month — not lumped into one catch-up document.

## Where does the legal obligation actually come from?

Not the Guideline. **Section 82C of the Income Tax Act 1967**, inserted by the
Finance (No. 2) Act 2023 (Act 851), creates the duty to issue an electronic
invoice for each transaction and to transmit it for the Director General's
validation. Section 82C(6) covers self-billed invoices, s.82C(7) consolidated
invoices, and s.82C(8) allows a substitute e-Invoice within **three days** of a
defective one. Section 120(1)(d) makes contravention of s.82C(1), (6) and (7) an
offence.

## Common mistakes

- **Treating the RM1 million figure as a deferral.** It is a standing exemption
  in section 1.6.1. It is also not a phase — there is no phase 5.
- **Recomputing your phase from current turnover.** The test is FY2022, once.
- **Reading the phase 4 relaxation as a holiday.** Consolidated submissions are
  the condition of the concession, not an alternative to it.
- **Assuming the 72-hour window is a correction window.** It cancels; it does
  not amend. After 72 hours you issue a credit, debit or refund note e-Invoice.
- **Missing that the phase-3 date is also the cut-off** for statutory bodies and
  international organisations, whose exemption only covered transactions before
  1 July 2025.

## What's next

Confirm which of your transactions can be consolidated at all — several
industries never could, and any single transaction above RM10,000 has been
carved out since 1 January 2026. If you buy from foreign suppliers or pay
individuals, the self-billed rules apply to you regardless of how small your
sales ledger is. Implementers should start from the field list rather than the
timeline.

## Sources

- e-Invoice Guideline (Version 4.7) — https://www.hasil.gov.my/wp-content/uploads/IRBM-e-Invoice-Guideline.pdf (LHDN)
- e-Invoice Specific Guideline (Version 4.8) — https://www.hasil.gov.my/wp-content/uploads/IRBM-e-Invoice-Specific-Guideline.pdf (LHDN)
- Garis Masa Pelaksanaan e-Invois — https://www.hasil.gov.my/e-invois/garis-masa-pelaksanaan-e-invois/ (LHDN)
- Finance (No. 2) Act 2023 (Act 851) — new sections 82B and 82C — https://www.myttx.customs.gov.my/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/WJW23%EF%80%A21341-BI.pdf (Government of Malaysia)

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